Originally Posted by SIMPSONATOR;14354081
What's funny is that Apple is only hurting themselves. Without a competitor to learn from, you won't advance far, and people get bored. New tech will come, and Apply might not be ready this time

The '647 patent accomplishes this by identifying the structure, associating candidate actions to the structures, enabling selections of an action, and automatically performing the selected action on the structure. For instance, the system may receive data that includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in response to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the user the choice of making a phone call to the number.

??? How can this be patented by Apple? Even the basic of phones can do this and could do this before even 1st gen iPhone... I''m seriously confused as to how they got the ruling in their favor.

The first claim basically states that they can't display phone numbers on their phone.

The second one basically says that their phone can't have any hardware in it, and if it does, its not allowed to communicate with the CPU. This one actually applies to every computer ever made. If you have a video card, audio chip, pretty much anything other than a cpu, then its infringing on Apple's patent.